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Kilmainham Gaol Kilmainham gaol - Coggle Diagram
Kilmainham Gao
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Jobs
Women worked in laundry
After 1844 prisoners also made and repaired their own uniforms
Men broke stones in the stone breaking yard
They also cleaned their cells
Famous Prisoners
Robert Emmet
Charles Parnell
Anne Devlin
Henry Joy McCracken
Eamon De Valera
Food
A typical meal
Bread and milk or soup for dinner
Indian meal/corn and milk for Breakfast
people during the famine used to commit crimes to go to jail and get food
Layout
A series of yards, dedicated to activities were arranged around the cells
The toilet facilities were confined to chamber pots inside
The gaolers lived in the central block.
The two wings contained cells for the prisoners
It had an entrance and administrative block and the cells are set around two central yards
1916 Executions
People who were executed
Padraic Pearse
Tom Clarke
Joseph Plunkett
Thomas Mac Donagh
William Pearse
Seán Mac Diarmada
James Connoly
Joseph Plunkett and Grace Gifford
After Plunkett was sentenced he was still determined to get married to his fiancé.
The Jail allowed it and they got married in the catholic chapel in the jail and the wedding was stripped of all love and romanticism
Plunkett and Gifford were due to be wed on Easter Suday a day before the rising
Their marriage became immortalised by Frank and Seán Meara writing one of the most beloved Irish ballads about their marriage called 'Grace'
